Re: [Leica] There really is a Santa Claus! ;-)

["Bruce Bowman" <M5user@attglobal.net>]

Ted,

Congratulations,

Can't wait to see this book after your last one.
However... I don't buy your subject heading. This wasn't a gift, merely a
return on your investment! How many of us would have thought of that
approach to shooting our towns?

Bruce Bowman
Killingworth CT
(New Email account)
> Well guys and gals,
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> A year ago I acquired a 15 mm Voigtlander lens for an M6 Leica, it
> became a real fun tinker toy lens to work with. Not that I didn't have
> experience with a 15 mm before, lots of it. However, on an R whatever,
> it's a whole different ball game, as you automatically begin to focus!
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> But on a range finder where you can't focus, no need to anyway, as heck
> at wide open, it seems like everything from inches beyond your nose to
> Mars is in focus.  So now my picture taking took on a whole new look as
> I was so impressed with the re-birth of enthusiasm of seeing "wide
> angle" I started on a "Where I live and how I see it" project that began
> to have some quite neat looking images.
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> To shorten this!    The on going project became even more interesting as
> the 15 mm images evolved,  I decided to give the whole thing another
> twist.  I began to shoot the town using a 400 and a 15!   WOW!  Nothing
> in between. It sure beat using the same tripod holes other guys around
> town had been doing for years!
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> So now,  an innocent meeting this morning to show some images, maybe a
> spread in a major tourist magazine, who the publisher also does "BOOKS!"
> :;-) Ok you know already what's coming, right? ;-)
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> We have a little chat, editor and assistant. begin looking at stuff.
> Now I always keep my mouth shut when an editor is looking at images, you
> don't want them distracted with babbling in the background. Editor
> begins making remarks:
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> " Oh my!  Wonderful!  Look at this!   Never seen it look like that!
> Incredible! Beautiful capture of light! Gorgeous! Oh my oh my!"   Then!
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> "These are incredibly so different a perspective and we have just been
> discussing a new book on Victoria and you come in with a Christmas gift
> like this,  with at least half the pictures done!  Would you like to
> complete this and we'll do the book around your pictures?"     Cool !
> :-)  Like wow! I smiled, thanked him, we shook hands. And in my mind I
> finally knew there really is a Santa Claus after all! ;-)
>
> So there you go eh? :-)
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> ted Grant
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